Some people insist on a conspiracy

3:02 PM,
May 1, 2013

Written by

Rekha Basu

As you might expect, the parents of the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings say their sons are innocent and were framed by the U.S. government.

As you might not expect, a Florida professor with a University of Iowa Ph.D. is saying the same thing. So are a host of U.S. websites, which depict the bombings as one big government conspiracy and offer all kinds of twisted evidence to prove it.

Do a Web search of the words "naked video suspect" and some of those sites should pop up. Those go along with a story claiming Tamerlan Tsarnaev was captured alive and killed later. It began with a ...